The Ralphie Report 2009 Week 1 Blog Poll

by Jon Woods on Sep 9, 2009 2:02 PM MDT in Blog Poll Comment 10 comments

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Florida
2	Texas
3	Southern Cal	1
4	Alabama	1
5	Oklahoma State	7
6	Penn State	1
7	LSU	1
8	Ohio State	1
9	California	1
10	Mississippi	1
11	Brigham Young
12	Notre Dame	1
13	Oklahoma	10
14	Georgia Tech
15	Virginia Tech	7
16	TCU
17	Kansas	1
18	Cincinnati
19	Boise State	4
20	Miami (Florida)
21	Oregon State	2
22	North Carolina	1
23	Missouri
24	Nebraska
25	Florida State	5
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Oregon (#15), Iowa (#17), Texas Tech (#22), North Carolina State (#24), Georgia (#25).

Next five teams: Texas Tech, Arizona, Georgia, West Virginia, Northwestern

You know the drill. Tell me what I did wrong or how you would rank them differently. All those that thought that my Notre Dame ranking was ridiculous, do you still feel that way now?

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I may be somewhat biased since I am from Atlanta and am a UGA fan, but I am definitely not buying the Oklahoma State top 5 hype right now. I think they firmly planted themselves as top 10 with their win, but top 5 is absurd in my book. Their D really was not that impressive and were more helped out by sloppy offense, and their offense didn’t look that tough either. I think this is going to be like Texas Tech/Missouri was last year though, they got a ‘marquee’ win against a team that lost pretty much their entire offense to the NFL, and they are going to run through a bunch of fluff teams and be ranked #2 or #3 when they play Texas or something and get stomped. I may be wrong but I think the Oklahoma State bandwagon is a little premature at this point.

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by BVaz on Sep 9, 2009 4:23 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

the problem with that thinking is that you have to find someone else who DOES deserve to be in that spot

Certainly no one else in the rest of the top 10 behind them has any greater claim on the #5 slot. Maybe Penn State for stomping Akron or Cal for stomping Maryland, but I don’t think they’d be any more legit.

And yes, I still think you’ve got Notre Dame ranked too high. Had you started them at, say, 22, would you have moved them up to 11 for that win? I don’t think so.

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by Hallux Valgus on Sep 9, 2009 4:50 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Its a good point.

I look forward to the ND-Michigan game this weekend even though I don’t like either of them. I think it will tell us a lot about both teams.

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by Jon Woods on Sep 9, 2009 5:12 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was a huge win

and they have an argument to be up that high for now. If they aren’t careful Houston is a team that could knock them right back down again.

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by Jon Woods on Sep 9, 2009 5:13 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, ND is to high

They beat Nevada, wow! Yes Nevada was supposed to have a pretty good offense but this proves nothing. I’m looking forward to watching the ND-Michigan game this weekend to get a real feel for both teams. I’ll also say that OkSU is a bit too high as well right now. These early rankings are tough to do b/c we just don’t know enough. Watch out for Cal…sleeper team

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